'Wight3'
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Families covered: Wight of Barking, Wight of Betchworth, Wight of Blakesley, Wight of House of Muir, Wight of Murrays, Wight of Ormiston
| Robert Wight of Murrays (d c1670) | |||||||||||||||
| m. (02.10.1647) Barbara Calderwood (dau of John Calderwood of Pittedy) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Alexander Wight of Murrays & West Byres (d 1697) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Janet Belsis (b 1636-7, d 13.05.1705, dau of David Belsis of that ilk) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Robert Wight of Murrays and of the House of Muir (d 12.1734) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Mary Cuthbertson (dau of James Cuthbertson of Penston) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Alexander Wight of House of Muir & Ormiston (d 11.1751) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (28.11.1717) Katherine Simpson (dau/heir of Andrew Simpson of Pittendreich) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Andrew Wight of Ormiston (b 05.01.1719, d 11.03.1792) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (29.12.1758) Mary Brown (d 09.05.1808, dau/heir of Rev. David Brown by dau of Thomas Scott of Toderick) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | David Wight of Ormiston (b 29.03.1760, d 17.02.1830) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (29.11.1798) Elizabeth Wight (d 10.02.1812, dau of Robert Wight of Murrays son of Robert & Agnes Wright) @@ below | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Andrew Wight of Ormiston (b 28.04.1800, d 20.11.1858) had issue | ||||||||||||||
| m. (28.01.1841) Louisa Mary Catherine Boycott (d 16.08.1873, dau/heir of Thomas Boycott of Rudge Hall) | |||||||||||||||
| Their son inherited the Boycott & Rudge estates and assumed the name Wight-Boycott. | |||||||||||||||
| (B) | Anne Margaret Wight | ||||||||||||||
| m. Alexander Imlach Lambe | |||||||||||||||
| (C)+ | other issue - Robert (d 1807), David in Edinburgh (WS) | ||||||||||||||
| (2) | Archibald Wight (b 15.04.1763, d 06.12.1844) had issue | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Hume (d 17.12.1844) | |||||||||||||||
| (3) | Catherine Wight (b 18.08.1761, d unm) | ||||||||||||||
| (4) | Wilhelmina Wight (b 02.10.1768) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (07.1785) James Walker (Captain) | |||||||||||||||
| (5) | Mary Wight (b 18.04.1733, d 06.12.15845) | ||||||||||||||
| m. James Macrobin (d 12.05.1822) | |||||||||||||||
| (6) | Johanna Wight (d 22.09.1813) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Thomas Johnstone of Templehall | |||||||||||||||
| b. | James Wight (b 13.11.1721, 3rd son) had issue | ||||||||||||||
| m. Beatrice Wight (dau of Alexander Wight of East Mains) | |||||||||||||||
| c. | Archibald Wight (b 23.09.1725, d Havannah 01.10.1762, Captain) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Helen Middleton (b 1735, d 1806, sister of Charles, 1st Lord Barham) | |||||||||||||||
| d. | Elizabeth Wight (b 31.10.1730, dsp 31.12.1815) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Thomas Johnstone | |||||||||||||||
| e. | Arabella Wight (b 05.10.1736, d 01.01.1821) | ||||||||||||||
| m. James Haig of Garvald | |||||||||||||||
| f.+ | other issue - Robert (b 18.10.1720, dsp Carthagena 06.1741, Captain), John (b 18.07.1734, dsp Saratoga 07.10.1777, Captain) | ||||||||||||||
| ii. | Robert Wight of Murrays (b 24.10.1711, d 1746) had issue | ||||||||||||||
| m. Agnes Wright (dau of Charles Wright of Muzzelburgh) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Robert Wight of Murrays apparently of this generation | ||||||||||||||
| (1) | Elizabeth Wight (d 10.02.1812) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (29.11.1798) David Wight of Ormiston @@ above | |||||||||||||||
| iii. | Janet Wight | ||||||||||||||
| m. (24.12.1719) John Cunningham of White Kirk | |||||||||||||||
| iv. | Helen Wight | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1734) James Angus of Edinburgh | |||||||||||||||
| v. | Marion Wight | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1735) Patrick Burn of Craig | |||||||||||||||
| B. | David Wight of West Byres "ancestor of the Wights of Duncrahill, West Byres and Viewfield" | ||||||||||||||
| m. Beatrice Yule | |||||||||||||||
| C. | Janet Wight | ||||||||||||||
| m. James Ronaldson of Dodridge | |||||||||||||||
| 2. | John Wight | ||||||||||||||
| A. | Alexander Wight of Cotterwell | ||||||||||||||
| m. Helen Hogg of Inveresk | |||||||||||||||
| BLG1894 reports that "This branch is extinct, and Cotterwell passed to the late Andrew Wight, of Ormiston". | |||||||||||||||
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| Thomas Wight of Betchworth, Surrey (a 1605) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Gabriel Wight of Betchworth | ||||||||||||||
| m. Mary Campion | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Henry Wight of Barking, Essex (bur 26.12.1698) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Margaret Hutchinson | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Henry Wight of Barking (bur 13.07.1716) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sarah Leigh (bur 02.01.1727-8, dau of William Leigh of Adlesthorp) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | William Wight of Little Ilford (Essex) & Blakesley (bur 31.08.1737) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (12.08.1721) Maria Penelope Watts Pettifer (bur 24.04.1762, dau/heir of Rev. John Pettifer of Blakesley (by Mary Watts), sister of Rev. John | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | William Wight of Blakesley (bpt 16.07.1722, d unm 02.09.1739) | ||||||||||||||
| (2) | Henry Wight of Blakesley, Sheriff of Northamptonshire (bpt 17.10.1727, dsp 08.1793, 3rd son) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Susanna Peareth (bpt 02.09.1739, d 14.01.1823, dau of William Peareth of Thorp Mandeville) | |||||||||||||||
| (3) | Elizabeth Wight (bpt 02.05.1732, d 16.04.1794) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (06.06.1765) William Moore of Rowerton then Newton | |||||||||||||||
| m2.(02.1776) Sir James Harrington of Bourton, Bart (bur 05.02.1782) | |||||||||||||||
| m3. Rev. John Chandler of Bourton | |||||||||||||||
| (4)+ | other issue - John (bpt 08.04.1724, bur 16.04.1724), Mary (bpt 29.01.1723, d infant), Sarah (bpt 08.04.1724, bur 16.04.1724), Elizabeth (bpt 10.04.1726), Maria Penelope Watts (bpt 13.09.1729, bur 21.09.1729) | ||||||||||||||
| b. | Thomas Wight of Barking (dsp 05.1747) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Cassandra Leigh (a 1772, dau of Theophilus Leigh of Adlesthorp) | |||||||||||||||
| c. | Sarah Wight (bpt 21.02.1693) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Charles Shephard | |||||||||||||||
| d. | Elizabeth Wight (bpt 26.07.1699, d 1761) | ||||||||||||||
| m. William Martin of London (b c1710, d 20.11.1760) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | James Martin of London (d 02.02.1776) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (03.09.1761) Sarah Leuty (a 1796, dau of Geoirge Leuty of St. Giles in the Fields) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Elizabeth Martin (bpt 17.09.1762, a 1808) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Francis Anthony Rougemont (dsp 1792) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (26.11.1795) George Charlotte William Ernst | |||||||||||||||
| m3. _ Frazer | |||||||||||||||
| (B) | Sarah Martin (bpt 18.10.1763, d 23.10.1814) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (19.01.1790) William Hibbitt (m2. ??) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | John Wight Hibbit, later Wight of Blakesely (a 1818) | ||||||||||||||
| e.+ | other issue - Leigh (dsp 1717), Anne (b 1694, dsp 1717), Elizabeth (b 1692, d 1697) | ||||||||||||||
Main source(s):
(1) For upper section : BLG1894 ('Wight-Boycott of Boycott and Rudge')
(2) For lower section : 'The History and Antiquities of the County of Northampton' (George Baker, vol 2, 1841, 'Watts, Pettyfer or Pettifer and Wight of Blakesley', p23+)
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